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It's been a year since Colorado legalized the retail sale and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. As the push for legal pot gains momentum around the country, all eyes are on how Colorado has been handling this transition.
America Tonight explored Colorado's year on pot, including the economic impact, the dangers and the unexpected consequences.
Meet the titans of the new cannabis industry, like Andy Joseph, whose THC-extraction machines made him a multimillionaire. But not everyone's so thrilled. A recent poll found that half of Coloradans don’t agree with legalization or how the state manages it. Tax revenues are lower than expected; high prices have left room for a black market; and now neighboring states Nebraska and Oklahoma are suing to put a stop to Colorado's groundbreaking law.
If Colorado can’t keep the booming marijuana industry under control, the federal government has vowed to step in and end its recreational use. Now there’s growing evidence that legalization has intensified problems like youth abuse and driving while impaired. We investigate a couple supposed side effects of legal pot: THC-poisoning in people who accidentally consumed marijuana edibles and the rise of “dabbing,” a potentially dangerous and explosive new form of marijuana use.
Even though states are legalizing marijuana, federal law still applies to researchers who use federal money, and that means it's no easier to study pot in Colorado than it would be in the most conservative states in the union. That also means that policymakers are creating world-changing laws based on nothing but anecdotal evidence. America Tonight explores just how little real science has been done in the last 50 years in the United States.
As the pot and parenting columnist at The Denver Post, 29-year-old Brittany Driver is part of the paper's new cannabis beat, the first ever at a mainstream American news outlet. Driver has no background in the pot industry or in writing. She was watching "The Colbert Report" in December 2013 when the Post's new pot editor announced he was hiring a pot critic. Driver's husband suggested she apply.
A burn doctor who struggles to treat dabbers believes they’re suffering from cannabis withdrawal
Ron Kammerzell discusses the lessons learned in the state's first year with legalized recreational pot
Colorado's recreational retail pot sales are booming, but entrepreneurs have trouble accessing credit and bank accounts
America Tonight traveled to Colorado, California and Ohio to see how entrepreneurs, pot users and politicians are gearing up for the new changes. Meet some of the folks in our story and the roles they play.
Idaho's stance against legalizing marijuana is one of the toughest in the U.S., but could a 7-year-old boy change that?
Not every argument made by legalize pot advocates has proven to be true in the Netherlands in the 38 years since it decriminalized pot. And its discoveries may hold lessons for the new pot paradises Colorado, Washington state and Uruguay.
A year after state legalized the drug, business groups and public officials say new rules help Colorado
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